Police are investigating a car accident after a P-plate driver crashed into the garden bed on the corner of Shoalhaven Street and Terralong Street just before 9:30pm on Sunday night.

There were three female passengers in the car and local SES workers needed to cut one of them out of the vehicle.

She was taken to hospital with minor injuries.

“A vehicle was heading southbound on Shoalhaven Street and near the intersection of Terralong Street, collided with a stone retaining wall on the corner,” Kiama Fire and Rescue deputy captain Brian Guillaumier said.

“As a result of that, one person received minor injuries and was trapped in the car by injury, not by confinement.

“SES was called, they removed the door and the [injured] person was treated by bystanders and fire and rescue personnel for a head injury, then treated by ambulance and was taken to hospital by ambulance.”

Kiama Council moved quickly to minimise disruption to commuters. Photo: The Bugle

Deputy Captain Guillaumier, who was in attendance, explained to The Bugle that the dramatic situation was resolved smoothly.

“We cleaned up a bit of an oil spill, the car was towed away, and the council came out and cleaned up the rocks,” Guillaumier said.

The driver was released without charge pending a Lake Illawarra Local Area Command investigation.